Southwest Airlines and
Megaputer Intelligence conducted a joint proof-of
-concept project in
support
of t
he Global Aviation Information Network (GAIN) Working
Group B effort
s to
facilitate and
prom
ote the use of automated data
and text mining tools in t
he aviation safety
comm
unity
.
Megaputer Intelligence provided the analytical software (Poly
Analyst™) and its usage expertise,
and Southwest Airlines provided de-identified reports from their
Aviation Safety
Action Program
(ASAP) database along with guidance
and insight
on the relevancy
of the results. The A
SAP
database
contains voluntary
feedback from pilots
on abnormal occurrences in different phases of
flight.
The project spanned a six-week period wherein different analytical
methodologies were
demonstrated
to the Flight Safety
Officers (FSOs) to identify
potential safety
issues fro
m the
pilot
narratives.
The emphasis of the project was
to demonstrate new knowledge by
conducting a
comprehensive analysis of all available data
to discover trends, associations, and
correlations.
Read the study here.
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